Chip Rally Lifts South Korea’s Kospi 60.37 Points But Kosdaq Tumbles 4.63%

South Korean stocks ended mixed on Aug 21, with the benchmark Kospi rising 60.37 points, or 0.88%, to 6,912.95, as heavyweight chipmakers rallied on expectations of large-scale shareholder return programmes. The tech-heavy Kosdaq, however, plunged 4.63% to 801.94. Samsung Electronics climbed 3.87% to 281,500 won, while SK hynix advanced 2.31% to 1.73 million won, helping […]